UIDAI approves rules under the Aadhaar Act, to be notified soon

J Satyanarayana, was on Thursday appointed as the part-time Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) which runs the ambitious Aadhaar project.

NEW DELHI: After the getting the Aadhaar Act in place, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has finalized the rules under the act with respect to enrollment, authentication, data security and sharing of information among others. These rules are expected to be notified in the upcoming weeks.

Last week, Former IT secretary to the government of India, J Satyanarayana, was on Thursday appointed as the part-time Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) which runs the ambitious Aadhaar project.

Satyanarayana, who is a retired IAS officer was administered the oath by union minister for electronics and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad. The government also appointed Rajesh Jain of NetCore and Anand Deshpande of Persistant Systems as part-time members of UIDAI.

“Approval of the regulations is an important landmark. These regulations contain procedures to ensure that enrolment, authentication, use of Aadhaar and data and privacy protection are strictly in accordance with the provisions of the Aadhaar Act. People can use Aadhaar to receive various services, benefits and subsidies directly from the government without any intermediaries. On the other hand, it will help governments to ensure targeted delivery of benefits to the deserving individuals and bring transparency and good governance in their systems”, said Ajay Bhushan Pandey, chief executive officer of UIDAI.

In a statement, UIDAI said that so far 105.15 crore Aadhaars have been generated and around 6 lakh Aadhaar enrolments are being done on a daily basis while over 60 lakh authentication based on Aadhaar happen every day.